Support for Alternative Layouts
This is a summary of how alternative layouts have been supported by kits such as Colevrak and Homing. It is not a discussion of alt layout performance and development, but if that interests you I highly recommend starting with Pascal Getreuer’s A guide to alt keyboard layouts (why, how, which one?). It’s a concise and comprehensive overview with links to some great sites that go deeper. He also has a separate Links about keyboards page. The Keyboard layouts doc he recommends explains layout goals and metrics in detail, summarizing the alt layouts discussed here as well as more than one hundred others. Sculpted-profile The majority of custom keycap sets are sculpted-profile (Cherry, SA, MT3, KAT, etc. - more on profiles generally here) so let’s start there. Because each row has a unique keycap shape, alt layouts require a unique keycap for each legend that moves off its QWERTY row. At first there were two The Dvorak layout was patented in 1936 by August Dvorak & William L....
Apr 23, 2024
A 60% board is great to type on and it allows a more natural position for your mouse. I switch between a full size and a 60% (Poker II) and when I'm on the full size board my hand often ends up on the Tenkey cluster when I am aiming for the mouse.
Because of the compact size your hands rarely have to leave the home row, even when accessing function keys. Is can be very efficient once you know the layout. Plus 60% boards are very customization friendly.
If you gave it a try you just might love it!